Santa Fe Imaging’s new $2.2 million 3 Tesla MRI is the first in the New Mexico city and is already improving care for patients and providers, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported.
James Hutchinson, PhD, former medical physics scientist and inventor of the world’s first full-body MRI scanner, died at the age of 77 on Tuesday, Sept. 4, according to a report published online Sept. 11 by Scotland’s The Press and Journal.
A new technique that connects a small group of radiologists together using artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms performed better than individual doctors or algorithms alone in detecting pneumonia on x-rays.
Health Imaging spoke with the FDA about its regulation process for machine learning-based medical imaging devices and applications, how the medical imaging industry may benefit from machine learning technologies and more.
A group of radiology consultants to University Hospital Kerry (UHK) in southwest Ireland say the hospital is in danger of losing its level three designation due to lack of resources and equipment, citing its radiology department as a central point of concern, the Irish Examiner reported.
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound may be more accurate than CT or MRI in identifying cancerous tumors in the kidneys and could reduce unnecessary biopsies and surgical procedures by half, according to research presented at the 2018 International Contrast Ultrasound Society’s Bubble Conference in Chicago.
Authors of a recent Journal of Nuclear Medicine study have discovered potential for misdiagnosis when relying solely on prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET imaging in prostate cancer staging.
The first FDA-approved MRI system in the U.S. to provide medical imaging for newborns in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) was recently installed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, NBC 10 reported on Sept. 8.
A new algorithm that can automatically map CT scan locations of patients on computational human phantoms may trump manual mapping techniques for patient dose monitoring, clinical trials and epidemiologic studies, detailed a study published online Sept. 5 in the Journal of Digital Imaging.
